flambeau
Americannoun
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a flaming torch.
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a torch for use at night in illuminations, processions, etc.
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a large, decorated candlestick.
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an ornament having the form of a flaming torch.
noun
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a burning torch, as used in night processions
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a large ornamental candlestick
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Etymology
Origin of flambeau
1625–35; < French: torch, derivative of Old French flambe flame
Vocabulary lists containing flambeau
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He and friends played hide-and-seek in nearby brush but never saw the flambeau lit.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2021
And lit me with her pine-knot torch to bedward, Where, as the custom of the court it was, The beauteous Wolf-head blew the flambeau out, And then— Alice.
From The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage by Moses, Montrose Jonas
After another rain the bare flambeau trees would burst into fiery bloom.
From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Hergesheimer, Joseph
“Maybe ’twill paint the blues in old Tory Cave, if we run across them there,” put in Tomoke, maiden of the flambeau and the fire-talk.
From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Hornibrook, Isabel Katherine
The worst of it is, by the light of this great modern flambeau which they had been unable to extinguish, they saw their own deformity.
From Priests, Women, and Families by Michelet, Jules
On Tuesday night, authorities lit flambeaus to keep wild animals away, an official involved in the operation told the Hindustan Times newspaper.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2022
Many of the inhabitants carry lighted branches and flambeaus, and rockets, squibs, etc., are discharged on the occasion.
From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel
High and low the serfs looked out, red the flambeaus tossed about,— Toll slowly.
From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various
They came down here with torches and flambeaus and saw the darkness only, while the light came out to meet us, seeing we had none….
From Pélléas and Mélisande by Hovey, Richard
It was dimly lighted by representations of flambeaus, stuck at angles in the walls.
From Man of Many Minds by Evans, E. Everett (Edward Everett)
Like ghosts from the last century, they staged a torchlight parade, with oilcloth capes and kerosene flambeaux on long poles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The flambeaux around the edge were bright and red in the dark.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Often, when the Queen was entertaining distinguished company under the flambeaux of the Great Hall, Lancelot had found him sitting by himself in a small room, mending stockings.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Lamps and flambeaux are used at Japanese weddings, and torches are still used at Turkish marriages.
From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by Andrews, William
Others of the party had these natural flambeaux also, which added greatly to the solemnity and impressiveness of the scene.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
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